onnected health devices that help at-risk populations, like senior citizens and the chronically ill, make good sense. They help keep people healthy, and they ultimately save the system money.
A San Jose, Calif.-based company called Vital Connect announced today that it received FDA clearance for use of its HealthPatch MD biosensor for monitoring patients at home.
Cellular Dynamics International has already situated itself as an early leader—if not the leader—in large-scale manufacturing of human cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. Today the company says it has strengthened its market position with three new patents related to making stem cells from human blood samples.
Dans une étude publiée dimanche dans Nature Neuroscience, un groupe de chercheur dirigé par Takaomi Saido de l'institut des sciences du cerveau du RIKEN au Japon, rapporte la création de deux nouveaux modèles de souris pour la maladie d'Alzheimer qui pourraient bien révolutionner la recherche contre cette maladie.
Health care represents a major challenge for many countries as rising health care costs, aging populations, access disparities and chronic illnesses threaten traditional health care systems. Mobile technology can help address these issues, argue Darrell West, Joshua Bleiberg, and a number of academics with the China Academy of Telecommunication Research of MIIT, by boosting productivity, aiding communications, encouraging better health data collection, and analysis and helping providers improve affordability access and treatment.
An image-sharing mobile platform for physicians and patients, an app that would not only help train people in CPR but also help to build a global database of defibrillators in public places, and a tool for making Phys Ed classes more productive. Those mobile health ideas come from the three finalists in the American Heart Association’s Open Innovation Challenge. About 10 teams together raised nearly $50,000 in the crowdfunding leg of the contest on MedStartr.
